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San Francisco train conductor reportedly warns riders to watch 'for needles' (TR)
Fox News ^ | 07/27/2018 | Greg Norman

Posted on 07/27/2018 9:34:04 AM PDT by DFG

Watch where you sit on San Francisco Bay Area trains – it could be painful.

Conductors there reportedly have taken to the trains' PA systems to warn riders about hypodermic needles being left on seats by transient drug users as San Francisco fights an uphill battle to clean up thousands of syringes discarded each month all over the city.

“Please look around you for needles before you sit down. There’s at least one needle in car 1551 and there may be others. Thank you,” a conductor said Thursday, according to Buzzfeed technology reporter Caroline O’Donovan.

She said the warning was made over the loudspeaker at every stop.

“Once again, please make sure there are no needles in or around your seat before you sit down,” the Bay Area Rapid Transit conductor said, according to O'Donovan's Twitter account.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bart; frisco; sanfran; syringes
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Full title: San Francisco train conductor reportedly warns riders to watch 'for needles' amid 'needle litter' epidemic
1 posted on 07/27/2018 9:34:04 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

“I’m on needles and pins about my trip to SF”

Come for the crabs, stay for the hep.


2 posted on 07/27/2018 9:35:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: DFG

This makes San Francisco look bad. Quick, kill the messenger!


3 posted on 07/27/2018 9:35:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: DFG
And the increasing liitle surprises---💩 layin about.
4 posted on 07/27/2018 9:36:53 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: DFG

This is TERRIBLE, and the train conductor should be cited, fined, perhaps fired with no pension.

You mean he actually warned about needles, without mentioning the fecal matter!?!?! Shame on him for giving only part of the necessary warning.


5 posted on 07/27/2018 9:37:08 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Leaning Right

The Streets Of San Francisco

Tonight’s Episode :

Kill The Messenger


6 posted on 07/27/2018 9:37:13 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: rktman

next will come puddles of urine, and deposits of feces. If the condition of the rest of the city is any indicator, these other items will show up on BART as well.


7 posted on 07/27/2018 9:38:01 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DFG
Maybe AIDS is "Everyone's problem" now after all.
8 posted on 07/27/2018 9:40:01 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: DFG

LOL. Welcome to San Francisco — the perfect mix of extreme liberalism, needles and feces.


9 posted on 07/27/2018 9:40:57 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DFG

Has he/she been fired yet?


10 posted on 07/27/2018 9:42:20 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: DFG

Don’t step on the poop. Don’t sit on the needles. Don’t look at Pelosi’s face.


11 posted on 07/27/2018 9:42:40 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: DFG

Exhibit 1A how the rest of the country would have been like after 8 years of Hitlery, and if you don’t like it well tough cookies we’re going to investigate the crap out of Trump until we get that kond of President we approve of.


12 posted on 07/27/2018 9:44:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: DFG

Get pierced by a needle, step in someone’s crap, bend over and find someone trying to shove his d*ck up yer butt. Hepatitis. HIV. And yet they say that housing is amongst the most expensive in the US.

Go figure.


13 posted on 07/27/2018 9:51:53 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: DFG

Watch where you step because of the poop.


14 posted on 07/27/2018 9:59:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hysterical obsession: sex tape. Last week's: tweet on iranian threat.)
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To: DFG

San Francisco gives the trolley-car admonition, “Watch your step...” a whole new meaning.

Eeeeewwwwww, what’s that all over your pant cuffs?

Do restaurants in SF have those old scrape devices we used to have on the farm?


15 posted on 07/27/2018 10:10:29 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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Knock it off San Francisco! I'm tired of this Oop a Poop...
16 posted on 07/27/2018 10:16:21 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Some might suggest that Liberal cities are full of sh!t.


17 posted on 07/27/2018 10:20:30 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: DFG

Wow! How many tourist dollars have been lost for SF because of their stupid policies?


18 posted on 07/27/2018 10:37:03 AM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: DFG

Will the conductor be sent to re-education camp for lack of proper sensitivity?


19 posted on 07/27/2018 11:36:55 AM PDT by libertylover (I'm not arguing with you; I'm just explaining why I'm right and you're wrong.)
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Watch where you sit on San Francisco Bay Area trains – it could be painful.

Painful? Hell, that's the least of your worries if you get poked by a discarded needle on a San Francisco Bay Area train.

20 posted on 07/27/2018 11:39:09 AM PDT by libertylover (I'm not arguing with you; I'm just explaining why I'm right and you're wrong.)
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